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IBM Targets Midmarket with Flurry of Smarter Planet Releases
IBM has announced several new offerings aimed at the mid-sized business market. The new offerings are many, but the message from IBM is fairly simple. The offerings are designed to help customers drive growth in the challenging economic environment and take advantage of the opportunities the Smarter Planet initiative offers. The overall strategic objective with…
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Cisco Beefs Up Sales Incentives Ahead of Earnings
After watching its core networking gear sales plummet in the first quarter, Cisco Systems is launching a stimulus package of its own: bounties in the form of padded margins and rebates of up to 15 percent of sale prices to solution providers who proactively sell switches and routers. Cisco, which will announce its third-quarter earnings…
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Microsoft Sues Four Partners Reveals Channel Monitoring Program
Microsoft is taking legal action as part of its channel monitoring program against four Canadian resellers that allegedly sold unlicensed copies of Microsoft products. The vendor has also, for the first time, disclosed its ongoing channel and monitoring actions, which includes strategies like mystery shoppers, mediation meetings and ongoing monitoring. The lawsuits Microsoft has filed…
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Recession Drags on PC Connection’s Sales
Direct market reseller PC Connection, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCCC) announced earnings that continue to reflect sluggish technology sales. Net sales for the three months ended March 31 decreased by 23 percent to $326.2 million from $423.7 million during the same period a year ago. Net loss for the quarter was $1.6 million compared to net income…
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HP EliteBook 2530p Notebook Has Enterprise Written All over It
Consumer notebooks have become all the rage, especially now that prices have dropped and functionality has increased. Many buyers are discovering that an inexpensive notebook can accomplish everything that they need and are forgoing purchasing a desktop system altogether. On the other hand, IT departments are finding that consumer-level notebooks are far more hassle than…
